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Microwave Photonics Systems Based on Whispering-gallery-mode Resonators
Published on: August 5, 2013
On the generation of octave-spanning optical frequency combs using monolithic whispering-gallery-mode microresonators
1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109, USA. yanne.chembo@jpl.nasa.gov
Abstract:
Octave-spanning optical frequency combs are especially interesting in optical metrology owing to the ability of self-referencing. We report a theoretical study on the generation of octave-spanning combs in the whispering gallery modes of a microresonator. Through a modal expansion model simulation in a calcium fluoride microcavity, we show that a combination of suitable pump power, Kerr nonlinearity, and dispersion profile can lead to stable and robust octave-spanning optical frequency combs.
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